# CVE-2023-5713: System Dashboard <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Information Disclosure (sd_option_value)

> Authenticated subscribers can retrieve sensitive option values due to missing capability checks in the System Dashboard WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Dec 2023
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mgjw-x57p-2wmf

## What is CVE-2023-5713?

CVE-2023-5713 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in qriouslad System Dashboard, published on 7 Dec 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The System Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the sd_option_value() function hooked via an AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve potentially sensitive option values, and deserialize the content of those values.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-5713?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Bowo System Dashboard.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-5713?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-5713 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-5713 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5713 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in qriouslad System Dashboard

- [CVE-2024-12299](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12299/): System Dashboard <= 2.8.17 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via Filename Parameter (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-11107](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11107/): System Dashboard < 2.8.15 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2023-7246](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-7246/): System Dashboard < 2.8.10 - XSS via Header Injection (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-10708](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10708/): System Dashboard < 2.8.15 - Admin+ Path Traversal (medium 4.9)
- [CVE-2023-5710](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5710/): System Dashboard <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Information Disclosure (sd_constants) (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-5713 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-5713 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in qriouslad System Dashboard, published on 7 Dec 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5713 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: qriouslad System Dashboard. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5713/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5713/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5713
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5713
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5713

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5713/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.